Keith Scribner

Moving, insightful, and suspenseful, Old Newgate Road is a masterful portrait of a haunted family and successive generations of men struggling against all odds and often violent impulses to truly know one another and their loved ones.

Lyndsay Faye

Desperate to get far away from those who want her dead, Alice has her sights set on Oregon. She travels from Prohibition-era Harlem to Portland’s the Paragon Hotel and becomes tangled in a search for a missing child in the woods.

Dani Shapiro

In 2016, through a genealogy website, Dani Shapiro received the news that her father was not her biological father. Timely and unforgettable, Dani Shapiro’s memoir is a gripping, gut-wrenching exploration of genealogy, paternity, and love.

Nick Petrie

Peter Ash finds himself stuck between Memphis gangsters–looking for Rolexes and revenge–and a Mississippi ex-con and his hog-butcher brother looking for a valuable piece of family history that goes all the way back to the Civil War.

James Brabazon

When it comes to killing terrorists British intelligence has always had one man they could rely on, Max McLean. As an assassin, he’s never missed, and now he must complete a mission that becomes a horror from beyond his nightmares.

Simon Lelic

Fourteen years ago, Susanna Fenton left her identity behind. When a young man, Adam Geraghty, walks into her office, claiming he needs Susanna’s help but asking unsettling questions, she begins to fear that her secret has been discovered.

Hester Young

After her work on a high-profile case brings unwanted fame, journalist Charlie Cates flees to Hawaii. But her hopes for a peaceful vacation are soon dashed by haunting dreams of a local girl who went missing six weeks earlier.

Chris Cander

Katya loses her piano during her emigration from Russia to the US. Yet fifty years later, Clara Lundy chooses to sell a piano her father had given her. And the interested party presents a surprising turn of events.

E. G. Scott

A husband and wife find themselves playing an unpredictable and stylish game of cat and mouse. The Woman Inside is a shocking tale of unfaithfulness and unreliability that will keep you racing until the final twist.

Joseph Finder

Juliana Brody is in consideration for the federal circuit, but finds that a man she met one night proves to have an integral role in a case she’s presiding over. Soon it becomes clear that her own life is in mortal jeopardy.

Jenn McKinlay

Ryder Copeland is drawn to the shy, curly haired professor who hires him to convert her house into a romance bookstore. Ryder has never wavered from his plan to leave his small town, but suddenly he’s not so sure.

Anissa Gray

In a heartbeat a family goes from one of the most respected in town to utter disgrace. What unfolds is a stunning portrait of the heart and core of an American family in a story that is as page-turning as it is important.

Deanna Raybourn

Three years ago, Malcolm Romilly’s bride vanished on their wedding day, and no trace of her has ever been found. Now those who were closest to her have gathered, each a possible suspect in her disappearance.

Stephanie Marie Thornton

Alice Blue, the cigarette-smoking, poker-playing First Daughter tests the limits of her power. But Washington, DC is rife with heartaches and betrayals, and it will take everything Alice has to claim her place as an American icon.

Susan Meissner

When Elise's family is sent to an internment camp for being Nazi sympathizers, Elise feels stripped of everything beloved and familiar. She must discover if she has the will to rise above prejudice and hatred and re-claim her own destiny.

Chanel Cleeton

As the Cold War swells like a hurricane over the shores of the Florida Strait, Beatriz Perez is caught between the clash of Cuban American politics and the perils of a forbidden affair with a powerful man driven by ambitions of his own.

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Laura Bradford

In this addition to the Amish Mysteries, Jakob's friend comes back in town and is murdered. He and Claire soon find that things are not as they seem–and that his friend may have stumbled into something sinister before he was killed.

Laura Childs

After the Ghost of Christmas Past stabs Scrooge during the first rehearsal of "A Christmas Carol," the murderer makes an escape. The list of suspects grows longer, and the women of Cackleberry Club are determined to find the killer.

Monica McCarty

Natalie is the worst spy in the history of spying, falling for her target. When her attempt at misdirection leads to irreversible consequences, she’s forced to run for her life, with her lover hot on her tail.

Beth Kendrick

Jocelyn never expected to be the legal guardian for a pack of pedigreed Labrador retrievers. She strives to uphold the “Best in Show” standards her pack requires, and finds love, family, and forgiveness in the most unexpected places.

Tom Hunt

After Joshua tells his mother about taking a man's life in a horrible accident, she is forced to make a choice, one that draws them both into a web of deceit that will change their lives forever–if they make it out alive….

Fiona Barton

Journalist Kate Waters tries to uncover what happened to two eighteen-year-old girls who went missing in Thailand. However, she can’t help but think of her own son, whom she hasn’t seen in two years, since he left home to go traveling.

Sonya Lalli

Raina agrees to let her grandmother play matchmaker. As Raina’s life spirals into disastrous blind dates, she must find a way out of this modern-day arranged-marriage trap without shattering her beloved grandmother’s dreams.

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